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Chapter 21: Hogsmede

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I leaned back against the bark of the tree and propped my book up on my knee and began to read.

It was a sunny Friday afternoon outside and many students were enjoying it, as the long week of exams had finally come to an end.

"Lord of the Rings, By J.R.R. Tol…Tolkine? Tolkin? Tolkeen? Tol-"

"Tolkien," I corrected Sirius who, to much of my dislike, appeared out of nowhere.

I looked up from my book and gave him the 'Can I help you?' look.

"Have I heard of it before?" he sat down interested.

"It's a muggles story. Not to mention a book so I doubt you've read it," I placed my bookmark in my book and laid it down on my lap.

"Isn't that the one with the pig and the spider?"

"Huh?"

"You know, the pig doesn't want to become breakfast and then the spider teaches him a load of whatever," I tried to stop him, "Then the spider dies and leaves all her kids to him. That's a sad part. I wouldn't want a bunch of spider kiddo's running around. No way! I'm not that big of a fan of spiders. Nasty little buggers but they do the trick on that Snivellus-"

"That's Charlotte's Webb, Sirius. Totally different book," I rolled my eyes.

"Oh, well their so similar it's hard to tell them apart."

"Right…"

"Anyway, how's your life?"

"It's spectacular. Today I battled a troll and tomorrow I'm planning on snogging Snape."

"Ew!! Really?"

"What do you want, Sirius?"

"Why would you think I want something?"

"Sirius…spill."

"Ok," he sat up and kneeled down at my side, "I just want you to know that if you want to break up with Jake-"

"-Jacque-"

"That it's okay with me. And I'll tell him you want to break up with him."

"First off, Did James send you?"

"No. Promise!"

"Second, I thought we already had this discussion and I said I don't want to break up with Jacque."

"Well I could do it you know? One punch in the face is all it will take," he pleaded.

"Sirius," I replied sternly, much like I did the first time we had this conversation.

"Alright, alright. He's bad news though."

"Don't start acting like Potter. I can take care of myself."

"Alright just trying to look out for you," he sighed.

"You mean look out for your friend my trying to get me to date him."

"Lil! I can't believe that you would accuse me of something like that!" he said 'shocked'.

"Yeah…like you would never try something like that," I laughed.

"I know, I'm brilliant," he replied dramatically, "Just remember that I'm here for you."

"Thanks."

~*~

"May I have your attention?" The hustle in the Great Hall came to a quick stop as Professor Dumbledore stood to speak. It was Friday night at dinner and I knew he was going to talk about the upcoming week, "Thank you. I have a few announcements to make. First off I am glad that exams are out of the way and I hope you all did excellent."

"Do you think that's a hint that we al did well?" Bree leaned over and whispered.

"Shh," I replied as Dumbledore was about to make a second announcement.

"Secondly, I need all seventh years to stay after to talk about next weeks events. Last but not least, years one through six your last day is Wednesday and year seven's last day is Saturday due to graduation and other plans. Now, I wish you all a good night!"

Years one through six left the Great Hall and seventh years filled the empty seats in the front so they could hear better.

"Your Head Boy and Girl have put a great amount of work towards planning this eventful week, just for you," Dumbledore started, "Now I will love it if you directed your attention to Miss Evans and Mr. Potter."

"Thank you Professor," I began, "Now, Potter and I have planned a weeks worth of events that you can attend to enjoy your last week here at Hogwarts. We will start it on Monday. The events will either be held during the day or at night," Potter elbowed me in the ribs causing me to, oops, accidentally hit him on the head, "Anyway, we are only going to tell you that there will be a Hogsmede weekend tomorrow and Sunday so you can buy dress robes or dresses for the last dance on Wednesday evening."

The hall immediately began to get loud as students buzzed about the ball and up coming activities.

"One last thing before bed," I continued, "We, or a Professor, will notify you at dinner if you need anything for the following day or the proper attire. But, we will not tell you what we are doing until that day."

"Yeah, so don't ask 'cause we wont tell you," James joined in. The hall erupted in laughter.

"Monday you will only need your wand and be sure to wear comfortable clothing and shoes. Be prepared!!"

"Night!" James waved to the sea of students before he and I said good night to the Professors then got lost in the crown in search of our friends.

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"Lily!" Bree sang happily as she skipped around the dorm room, "Wake up! We're going to Hogsmede!"

"Alright! I'm up, calm down!" I got out of bed and headed towards the showers where I wouldn't have to hear Bree singing very loud and horribly, on purpose might I add.

As I finished getting ready I thought about putting the silencing charm on Bree. But when I approached her with the idea, she made it to my wand faster than I did. Bummer…

Bree and I walked down the stairs talking excitedly about the week ahead of us.

"Hey Bree! What a surprise to see you here!" Sirius said putting something behind his back, "Lily! Is that a new shirt? Looks great."

I looked down at the blue shirt I wore not even a weekend or two ago and quickly realized they were up to something.

"What are you three doing?" I asked noticing Peter was missing. Oh yea, hospital wing…Blacks stupid hex backfired and hit him instead of Snape. Some friend he is.

"Certainly not hiding something behind this armchair," James said stupidly,

"Definitely not," Remus added.

"I'm not even going to look," I rolled my eyes and motioned for Bree to leave with me so we could get to breakfast, "If we don't go eat now then we'll be late to get to Hogsmede then you'll end up with a dress you hate because every girl in seventh year is going to be there today."

"Don't want that to happen," Sirius smiled hugging Bree.

"Yeah," she replied heading to the portrait, "It's a shame they told us bout this ball thing only five days before it! Where am I supposed to find a date in five days?"

"I don't know, you better ask someone quick," Remus joked.

"Your right," she turned to a certain person, "Will you go to the dance with me, Potter?"

"I'd love to!" he held out his hand and they both exited together.

"Well we should be off!" Remus offered me his harm and we walked off jokingly down the hallways.

"What about me?" Sirius whined following us down the hallways.

"C'mon Sirius," I held my arm out and he linked his to mine.

We headed down into the Great Hall and quickly ate breakfast so we would be one of the first at Hogsmede.

Bree dragged Sirius in the robe shop (who dragged James and Remus in too) to pick out dress robes for the dance.

"There is no way your going wearing your normal school robes," she pointed to the rack of men's robes and directed Sirius to pick out something nice. And 'something nice' had a much different definition in Bree's mind than in Sirius because he wanted to buy robes that flashed different colors.

"No way!" Bree took one look at the robes and nearly fell over, "Sirius this is our last dance here and I don't want to go with you while your dressed like that."

"But your going with Prongsie," Sirius replied with a sarcastic tone.

"Is that a tone Mr. Black? Are you using a tone with me?" she replied joking, yet demanding.

"Are you dumping me five days before the big day?" James said pretending to get teary and dramatic.

"It'll be okay, James," Remus replied comfortingly.

"At I wouldn't dump someone so soon before their big night," he stuck his tongue out at Bree.

"Whatever," Bree shoved some different robes into Sirius hand, "Try these on. Don't buy anything yet. I'm going to go try on dresses with Lily. If you want to leave tell me first. We'll be right over there," she pointed to the women dressing rooms.

"Alright! Don't go all motherly on me," Sirius headed towards some other dressing rooms with James and Remus.

"C'mon Lil, most of the school isn't even here yet so we've got a big selection to look through," Bree picked up a blue dress, looked at it, but immediately put it back on the rack.

"It's hard for me to find a dress," I picked up a dress but didn't bother to give it a second glance.

"Why's that?"

"If I got a red dress I would look like a tomato because of my hair. If I got a green dress I would look like a Christmas tree. If I got an orange dress it would look horrible, not to mention I don't fancy orange all that much."

"How about black? It matches everything and its very slimming," she winked and held up a few black dresses against me, "I like them. Although whenever I think of black I think of Sirius, but I guess that's what you get for dating a color."

"Yeah…" I laughed, "Thanks." We grabbed more dresses and headed to a changing room.

"Alright I found the dress I want," Bree exited the changing room holding the dress she wanted.

"Me too," we headed to the cash register to check out.

"Where's Sirius? He didn't say he was leaving," Bree scanned the room with her eyes, "There he is…typical guy," Sirius, James, and Remus were walking around in dresses (over their robes), odd feathery hats, and high healed shoes.

"Sirius get over here!" Bree screamed across the store.

"Coming my love!" he ran over to us, nearly tripping in the, very high, black shoes he was wearing.

"Did you find a dress robe you like?"

"No," he replied playing with a feather.

"Well then why are you running around in a dress instead of trying them on?" she asked.

"I got bored. Besides shopping and trying on clothes isn't my thing."

"Just please find one!" she whined impatiently.

"Just pick out one, I don't care!" he looked over to where James and Remus were having a 'sword fight' with the heels of some boots.

"I don't know which one you want. Just come find one with me then you can go back and play."

"Alright," Sirius ran over to the dress robes, picked one up, and placed in into Bree's arms ready to escape back to 'Fun Land'.

"You want one that says 'Slytherin Rocks' on the back?" She put the robe back on the shelf.

"How about this one?" her eyes lit up.

"Yeah whatever you want," Sirius replied.

"Good it's just your size," she looked at the tag.

"You know my size?" he asked surprised.

"Yeah…I guess. Its not like I meant to. Do you know my size?"

"Um…H?" he shrugged his shoulders.

"Yeah Sirius…my size is H," she rolled her eyes, "Lets go pay."

"Yeah ok then. Look, here's some galleons. Pay for the robey thing and we'll meet up at the castle in about an hour or two," he ran out of the store chasing Remus and James before Bree could say anything.